We will make our dwelling with him

At 15,1-2.22-29; Ps 66; Rev 21,10-14.22-23; Jn 14,23-29
26 MAY

The truth of personal being obliges one to its respect. With baptism one becomes the body of Christ. This is the truth of our whole being. We are the body of Christ, which is most holy. It must be respected in its highest holiness. It must never be brought into immorality, idolatry, or transgression of the Law. It must be kept pure.

“Everything is lawful for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is lawful for me,” but I will not let myself be dominated by anything. “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both the one and the other. The body, however, is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body; God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take Christ’s members and make them the members of a prostitute? Of course not!  (Or) do you not know that anyone who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For “the two,” it says, “will become one flesh.” But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body (1Cor 6,12-30).

Never might there be agreement and communion between holiness, truth, the light that we are and the darkness, idols, superstition, moral and spiritual evil. Truth must always remain truth, light always light, holiness always sanctity. The confusion between light and darkness, between piety and impiety, between latria and idolatry is not suited to the temple of God. The holiness of Christ obliges us by nature to the same holiness.

Do not be yoked with those who are different, with unbelievers. For what partnership do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? What accord has Christ with Beliar? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said: “I will live with them and move among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Therefore, come forth from them and be separate,” says the Lord, “and touch nothing unclean; then I will receive you and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty” (2Cor 6,14-18).

Jesus wants to make the heart of man the abode of the Blessed Trinity. When will this be possible? When the disciple makes the Word of Jesus his home, without ever coming out of it. The disciple abides in the Word, obeys it, lives for it and dies for it and the Father, Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit will make their house of their disciple. We know that with our death, God and Christ Jesus will be our temple and our eternal home. We will live forever in their light. This will happen if at the moment of death our home is the Word of Jesus. Everything is for the Word.

Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me. “I have told you this while I am with you. The Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name – he will teach you everything and remind you of all that (I) told you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me tell you, ‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.

It is urgent to pay close attention to Satan who wants to turn our heart into his home and into his abode. The strategies he uses are many and always up-to-date. We know that he does not give himself peace until he has conquered us again.

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person it roams through arid regions searching for rest but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my home from which I came.’ But upon returning, it finds it empty, swept clean, and put in order. Then it goes and brings back with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they move in and dwell there; and the last condition of that person is worse than the first. Thus it will be with this evil generation” (Mt 12,43-45).

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that we remain eternally abode of our God.